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Azure Database for MySQL
Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric: Your unified and AI-powered data estate
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the next generation of Microsoft’s databases: SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases, each redesigned to meet the demands of AI.
Microsoft Azure expands to new region in the China market
Since March 1, 2022, a new Azure region in North China will be unrestricted access by customers, which adds the fifth Azure region to the China market and doubles the capacity of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud portfolio in China.
Discover what’s new to Microsoft database services—recap from Microsoft Ignite
Whether it’s SQL Server, Azure SQL, open source, or NoSQL, Microsoft’s database services are here to help you build cloud-native applications or modernize existing applications with fully managed, flexible databases.
Open Azure Day: A VIP Linux and OSS speaker line-up in one event
The Linux and open-source landscapes are changing rapidly. With so many companies embracing remote work and operations this year, we’re seeing more organizations running large-scale, mission-critical Linux and open-source workloads than ever before. IT teams need technical resources that can keep up—now.
Save more on Azure usage—Announcing reservations for six more services
With reserved capacity you can get significant discounts over your on-demand costs by committing to long-term usage of a service. We are pleased to share reserved capacity offerings for the following additional services.
How HSBC built its PayMe for Business app on Microsoft Azure
If you live in Asia or have ever traveled there, you’ve probably witnessed the dramatic impact that mobile technology has had on all aspects of day to day life.
Announcing the general availability of Azure premium files
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure premium files for customers optimizing their cloud-based file shares on Azure. Premium files offers a higher level of performance built on solid-state drives (SSD) for fully managed file services in Azure.
Microsoft positioned as a leader in the Forrester WaveTM: Database-as-a-service
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Database-as-a-service, Q2 2019. This decision is based on their evaluation of Azure relational and non-relational databases.
Happy birthday to managed Open Source RDBMS services in Azure!
March 20, 2019 marked the first anniversary of general availability for our managed open source RDBMS services Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL.
Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL
For read-heavy workloads that you are looking to scale out, you can use read replicas, which are now generally available to all Azure Database for MySQL users.
Best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for MySQL monitoring
Whether you are a developer, database administrator, site reliability engineer, or a DevOps professional at your company, monitoring databases is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of your MySQL server.